How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone

Noting the recent arrival of the Rickrolling and iPhone/Privacy.A worms, Computerworld’s Mike Keller offers a series of tips on how to keep your device, as he puts it, “just as, if not even more secure than, any stock iPhone.”

First, Keller advises, change your SSH default passwords. “This is a must for any jailbreaker who installs SSH on their device. Both the Rickrolling and iPhone/Privacy.A worms permeated by locating jailbroken iPhones over Wi-Fi and logging in via SSH with a default password,” he writes.

And be aware of your surroundings. “Just like on your laptop, be aware that when using an unsecured Wi-Fi access point of unknown origin, there is always a chance (albeit a small one) that some unscrupulous hacker is out there sniffing out the data your are transmitting,” Keller writes.

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